Infinifield® is a new strategy board game,
designed for 2 to 4 players, ages 6 to adult. It breaks away from traditional games
with a fixed board layout and takes the playing field to the 3rd dimension. The
players design the board for every round themselves, and change it throughout
the game. We suspect that you can play Infinifield® your whole life and never
repeat the same layout. Some volunteers have already begun a life-long study to
prove this point.

The rules are incredibly easy to learn and
follow. Yet, the game challenges and entertains the most knowledgeable
professors just as well as young children. A better player can devise a clever
strategy and beat the opponents and there is a winner in every round. We have
tested Infinifield® on players of different education levels and age groups and
assure you that no professors have been harmed in these experiments, though
they didn’t consistently win. Click here to open the English version of the rules in PDF
format. If necessary, you can download a free reader for this file format from www.adobe.com.

A new variation of the rules has been proposed
by Mr. Tim Schulz. We have posted it
herewith his permission. We
strongly believe in the freedom of our players to alter the rules any way they
see fit. After all, we are trying to stimulate imagination with this game. But
we recommend using the official rules for any tournaments or competitions. Also
stick to the official version when players cannot agree on how to modify the
rules and are about to start throwing Infinifield blocks at each other. We
wouldn’t want that to happen for liability reasons. The blocks are made of
sturdy and durable plastic and may be harmful if used as projectiles.

High-quality blocks included in the game set are
made from FDA-grade plastic, made in the U.S.A. This means that you could
eat your food from them! We thought long and hard about this application, but
decided that only sushi and one-bite snacks could be comfortably placed on our
blocks, so we don’t advertise Infinifield® as dinnerware. Fair is fair – there are
limits to the usefulness of our game. But if younger children want to use
Infinifield® as a set of beautiful building blocks to construct a fort and then
smash their toy trucks into it, we think that it’s a very good idea and you
should let them. You will have to supply the toy trucks, of course. Just
remember that small parts may present a choking hazard for kids less than 3
years old and even FDA-grade plastic quality won’t help. Each game set consists
of 24 colorful blocks, 5 pawns, and instructions in English, Spanish, and
Russian.

As you become an expert player, we encourage you
to organize a local Infinifield® club and hold competitions. We are developing
a program to support such local clubs. Free game sets, modest gifts,
recognition on our Web site, and other perks to club presidents and
Infinifield® champions are being considered, so start today! It only takes a
few folks to organize a club.

Ever since we designed the game, we have been
trying to estimate the number of possible strategically different Infinifield®
board layouts. It was easy to call the game “Infinifield”, implying an infinite
number of possibilities, but it turned out to be much harder to calculate the
actual number. If you approach this task as an artist, then there is truly an infinite number of possible layouts. You may
turn blocks in countless ways, striving for a perfect composition. But if you
find inner beauty in quadratic equations and logarithmic formulas, then you
quickly realize that various layouts that appear different, may be
strategically identical. For example, you may turn some blocks at a different
angle, but as long as their connections are the same, the strategy will be
unchanged. Since we were too lazy to estimate the number of Infinifield board
layouts ourselves, we passed this task on to our players by announcing a math
contest. We have received several wonderful submissions.

The winner of the math contest is Mr. Chris Lynd, a math teacher and a strategy game enthusiast
from Michigan.
He has presented a 4-page paper calculating the number
of distinct playing fields of one possible layout type – 1x64 (a single line).
His number is 3,232. He has also found overestimates in submissions by other contestants,
securing his lead. We think that Mr. Lynd’s students are lucky to have him as a
teacher, because his logic and passion for math are outstanding!

Mr. Oriel Maxime from Chicago developed an
algorithm and a computer program in Haskell language to find all possible 8x8
field layouts. It is described in his article, which also includes color illustrations of 100
sample 8x8 layouts. The program produced 633,586 boards. Unfortunately, some of
the layouts are strategically identical, because of partial field mirroring and
rotations. Therefore, we could not award the first place to Mr. Maxime. But his results give you numerous 8x8 layouts to
play on. You can download the
whole file (5.8 MB) with 633,586 layouts or a 1% sample of it (140 KB). Each layout in these files is
presented as an 8x8 square filled with letters, for example:

AIBJCKDL

MIQJRKSL

MNQORTSU

ENQORTSU

PPQFRTSU

GVVVVTHU

WWWWWWWW

XXXXXXXX

Each horizontal or vertical line of identical
letters corresponds to one block. Letters A through H are used for white blocks,
I-P are used for double length yellow blocks, Q-V correspond to quadruple
length red blocks, and W and X denote long blue blocks.

We also thank Kirben and Rik
Smoody
for presenting their estimates.

Our contestants have focused on two layout types:
1x64 and 8x8. But there are numerous other 2D and 3D layouts, and even 8x8
hasn’t been fully solved. Try cracking this puzzle and
send us your results. We will give recognition on our web site and award free
Infinifield® sets at our discretion to those who provide reliable calculations
for any previously unsolved layout type.

·I love the game - my
daughter and I played it a few times (we discovered that for a 6 year old, it
is best to play on the flat board model that you provide in the instructions)
and we both had a great time. I look forward to playing with adults and
creating more complex boards. I am extremely impressed with everything about
it, in particular with how the rules are simple, but it can be played by people
of different ages and intellectual levels. For example, I can imagine my
daughter quickly adapting to be able to play more complex games. -- Dr. Berry

·Got it today. What a
clever game!It looks like a lot of fun.
I'm thinking of getting more for some of my nieces and nephews. – Sarah, Virginia

·Thank you for the game
Infinifield. It is a lot of fun. Mom and I played it for 10 minutes, then mom said I had to go to bed. But I really liked it. I
will play it tomorrow. -- Susan,
Wisconsin

·Infinifield reminded me
of a combination of WFF in Proof (the intellectual challenge)/15 (sliding
numbers into order game)/dominos (the neat tactile feeling of the blocks), and
perhaps even Legos (the 3-D aspect). -- Karen, CA(Disclaimer: Other games mentioned in this quote
may be trademarks of their respective owners. We make no claim to associate
Infinifield with them.)

·Our sets of Infinifield arrived a couple of days ago and already we have played with
two different friends and I am most impressed! We had a lot of fun with it and
it was very satisfying I can see it would be excellent for using as math manipulatives for fractions, etc and I like the idea on the
website about working out the number of possible layouts. -- Players in Australia

·The kids are adamant -
this game is a keeper. -- Carolyn,
Pennsylvania

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Developing and bringing this game to the market
has been a family project for the founders of Infinifield, Inc., with
contributions from members of three different generations. We hope that
Infinifield® will bring your family closer together as well. We are
committed to helping others and will donate free products to retirement homes,
schools, and libraries, as our production capacity allows.

We have donated 25% of our sales amount at the
CHITAG expo to the hurricane Katrina victims through the Red Cross. We have
also donated our products to various charities and causes (in no particular
order): a New Orleans family misplaced by the hurricane, libraries, teachers
attending CHITAG, Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education, a missionary
school in South Korea, an Illinois charity for
large families with 6 or more children and to the Department of Family and
Children’s Services in Georgia,
for children who are waiting to be placed in foster care.